Betty  is a composer and pianist, formerly she was head of music at St. Margaret's Anglican Girls' School, Brisbane and taught composition and musicianship at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music Griffith University. She has produced much work in orchestral, chamber and instrumental music, art song and music drama. Her work is broadcast and performed widely in Australia, USA, the United Kingdom, Europe, Mexico, Japan and Indonesia.

Professor Janet Delpratt

Dr. Nancy Van de Vate

She was born in Bundaberg and began her musical training at the age of three. By the time she was seventeen she had won many eisteddfod competitions and had twice been a finalist in the ABC Concerto and Vocal Competitions and had been awarded a Queensland University Music Scholarship which took her to the Sydney Conservatorium. .

Susan Lorette Dunn

Miss Norah Baird

There she studied with Frank Hutchens. Later she graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium specialising in piano and voice.

     In 1974 she was awarded jointly with David Cox, a South East Asian Fellowship by the Australia Council which allowed them to carry out research and gather materials for writing in Indonesia. Since then they have developed a strong interest in the music and arts of Bali and Java and have co-produced many projects that are unique in bridging the cultures they have experienced.     

Frank Hutchens

With Franz Holford

Anak Agung Raka

Cokorde Agung Mas

• International Encyclopedia of Women Composers, Aaron Cohen
  
• Contemporary Concert Music by Women:  a Directory of the Composers and Their Works,  Compiled and Edited by Judith Lang Zaimont and Karen Famera.
  

• The Twang Dynasty  by Ron K. Payne, 2012.
  

• Women of Note by Rosalind Appleby.  The Rise of Australian Women Composers.  Fremantle Press, 2012.
  

• Oxford,  A Dictionary of Australian Music,  Edited by Warren Bebbington
  

• The Oxford Companion to Australian Music
  

• Contemporary Composers, St. James Press, Chicago and London
  

• The New Groves Dictionary of Women Composers (1994).  MacMillan Press, London.
  

• Women Composers, Conductors, and Musicians of the Twentieth Century .  Selected Biographies.  Volume III